This patient recently flew to me from New Zealand to have her prior poor eyebrow transplant repaired. The patient previously went to a hair transplant surgeon with over 25 years experience. What he failed to tell the patient is that he had performed very few eyebrow transplant procedures in his career. Unfortunately there are many hair transplant surgeons do not appreciate the completely different discipline and approach that is required for an excellent eyebrow transplant result. The photos below show the patient as she presented to me after her previous eyebrow transplant (with less than 50 hairs per eyebrow) and immediately post my eyebrow transplant procedure where I placed over 300 hairs per eyebrow.

I hope to update with follow up photos in the future.

All the best,

Marc Dauer, M.D.

This is a patient after a failed eyebrow transpant.

This is a patient of mine immediately post corrective eyebrow transplant.

Here’s a link to an interesting article written in the UK press about how fuller eyebrows are all the rage today. It serves to highlight that in the hands of an experienced eyebrow transplant surgeon completely natural full eyebrows can be created using eyebrow transplantation.

Here is a new video I just edited that demonstrates my approach to eyebrow transplants and eyebrow restoration. In the video I demonstrate the shape and angulation of the hairs in the eyebrow which are all crucial to the most natural final result.

I just returned from the International Society Of Hair Restoration Surgeon’s annual meeting in the Bahamas. This meeting is always such an amazing opportunity to compare notes with respected colleagues in the field and discuss the latest innovations and the new technologies on the horizon. I was a faculty speaker at the meeting and gave a lecture for the board review course on donor harvesting in the strip harvest procedure. I was very intrigued by many exciting new advances and plan to do further investigation to see how I can continue to improve my treatments for hair loss. My philosophy is that no matter how good you are there is always room for improvement, and if you are not moving forward you are moving backward. I plan to continue moving forward and along those lines I am excited to incorporate new advances into my practice. I look forward to discussing these new additions to my Hair Transplant practice in the very near future.

Today I will discuss the first few weeks following Eyebrow Transplant surgery. Eyebrow Transplantation has become a much more popular procedure as of late. More people are discovering how effective and natural the procedure can be when performed by the right surgeon. I was one of the first surgeons in the country performing the procedure and as such have had the opportunity to perform a great number of cases. In addition, I have refined the overall technique in ways that greatly improve both the immediate post operative period and the final result.

In a typical Eyebrow Transplant procedure I will place between 100-300 single hair grafts per eyebrow. The number depends on the patients facial symmetry, gender, hair color, and eyebrow hair loss, among other factors. The entire procedure is performed under local anesthetic. In the immediate post operative period I tell patients that they should expect to see some swelling around the eyes and possibly even some bruising around the eyes. This typically peaks at around day 3 and resolves by day 5. Within 24 hours of the grafts being placed they form tiny scabs around the grafts that look like little grains of sand. Immediately after the procedure the patient gets a good idea of how the eyebrows will eventually look because I place the eyebrow hairs at about the same length as typical eyebrow hairs. Within a week most of the crusts fall out and a few of the transplanted hairs may fall out, but for the most part the patient is left with most of the new transplanted eyebrow hairs. Beginning in the second week the transplanted eyebrow hair grafts begin to fall out. Usually by the end of the first month, most of the transplanted eyebrow hair grafts have fallen out and the patient is left with eyebrows similar to what they had before the procedure. During this “in between” time the patient may continue to put on eyebrow makeup just as they did before the procedure.

At around 3 months post eyebrow transplant the new eyebrow hair grafts begin to grow in. Usually the patient will notice more hair between 4-6 months post operatively and at 12 months the patient will see the full result from the eyebrow transplant procedure. Below I will show a patient of mine pre operatively and 2 weeks post operatively to give you an idea of the typical look in the immediate post operative period.

If you have additional questions about Eyebrow Transplants please feel free to contact me.